(Jewish Telegraphic Agency Mail Service)
The President of the World Union of Sephardic Jews, Mr. Picciotto left Palestine for Europe where he will conduct an active propaganda campaign in Western Europe on behalf of Sephardic Jewry, especially in England, where the Manchester Branch of the Sephardic World Union has promised its cooperation.
The problem of Sephardic colonization still has many difficulties, a statement of the Union declared. Of the sum of £E10,000 appropriated by the Zionist Congress for the colonization of Sephardim in Palestine which was subsequently reduced by the Zionist Executive to £E5,000 as a result of the general curtailment of the sums available for colonization, only about £E2,000 has been granted so far.
This money was distributed as follows: The Colony of Saidoun £E300 to the Georgians in Petach-Tikvah, £300; to the Georgians recently settled at Petach-Tikvah £E900, half of which was advanced by the Labor Bureau of the Labor Organization; credits officially promised to the Sephardic colonists of Beer-Jacob and not yet distributed £E1,000.
The Sephardic Federation is daily approached by Sephardic farmers who ask to be settled on the soil, as otherwise they have no possibility of earning a livelihood. The Sephardic farmers of Zichron-Jacob have for over a year been negotiating with the Colonization Department of the Zionist Executive to be allowed to form a separate group. Their request is meeting with many obstacles in spite of the fact that they have been waiting for years to be established on land and possess documents proving that they have already worked on the land in Palestine, the statement declared.
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